I’m a sucker for documentaries about cinema. There’s just something about a doc looking inward on its own medium that compels me. Perhaps it’s just the cinephile in me, yearning to learn as much as possible about as many films as possible? That’s a possibility, but it also could just be how fun they tend to be. The new documentary series Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time, is definitely an example of that. Dropping tomorrow, part one of the three part series, Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Part I – Midnight Madness, dives into just what makes a midnight movie, why they’re so special, and how a cult of fandom has formed around so many of them. It’s a deeply enjoyable experience that I recommend highly for fans of the genre. The film is a documentary, part one of three in the Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time series, centering on the allure of cult cinema. This time around, the focus is on midnight movies. The official synopsis is as follows: “From “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” to “The Big Lebowski” and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.” The basic set up is that various cult films are discussed, mostly by talking heads, with clips interspersed. Periodically, the doc cuts to hosts of sorts in Joe Dante, Ileana Douglas, Kevin Pollak, and John Waters, so who discuss a few of the movies, before getting back to the segments. The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Big Lebowski kick things off, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg, as plenty of other titles are given the honor, across a multitude of genres, including The Decline of Western Civilization, Foxy Brown, Pink Flamingos, This is Spinal Tap, and more. Danny Wolf directs, with some of the folks on screen discussing the flicks include the likes of Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Bridges, Gary Busey, Fran Drescher, Jeff Goldblum, Pam Grier, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Penelope Spheeris, John Turturro, and more. This doc may not teach any film scholar anything new, but there’s a lot of fun to be had in watching so many people wax poetic about these types of works. If you’re at all into The Rocky Horror Picture Show, for example, that title […]